Get your Website ready for Business! New e-commerce scripts to use today

All new (and existing) PRO-HOST accounts now have new features available in their hosting control panels. PRO-HOST users now have an e-commerce section to ‘one-click’ install 8 popular e-commerce scripts to help turn your web site into a thriving online store.

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Create a Mobile Website quickly and easily

Mobile internet usage grew by 267% in 2010, and 2011 approximately 15% of all web traffic is on mobile devices and growing! Mobile accessibility is becoming one of the key considerations in web design.  Automatically detecting which device a user is browsing with and serving the appropriate version of the website accordingly, goMobi is the easiest way to optimise your ineedwebhosting website for mobile users, without compromising on quality with this new add-on!

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Open web Analytics added to PRO hosting accounts

We’ve added “Open Web Analytics” to one click install on all PRO-HOST and above hosting accounts.

The software is packed for of features to analyse, track and report your web site performance.

  • Open source, running on PHP, MySQL and JavaScript
  • No limits on data logging
  • Ability to track multiple websites
  • Heatmaps, conversion goals and goal funnels
  • Mouse movement tracking
  • Optional command line interface for admins
  • PHP and JavaScript tracking clients
  • Full integration with WordPress and MediaWiki without the need for third party plugins
  • Plugin support for Drupal

And much more!

Try a demo here

We’re moving to PHP 5 as the our default version

As from the 6th of September we’re changing our current default version of PHP 4 to PHP 5.

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Top Tips for Search Engine Success (Part Two)

Tips on search engine success

Part Two of a series of posts to help the beginner understand what is needed to make your web pages search engines friendly. We are optimising an imaginary “Washing Machine Repairs” web page. In Part Two we cover; Keywords, Hyperlinks, and ALT tags.

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Top Tips for Search Engine Success (Part One)

Having slaved over a carefully crafted web site design, and launching it to the world, you now find yourself disappointed that you are nowhere to be seen in any search engine listings - a very common scenaro.  We have all been there before.

Part of the web site design process should include Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) consideration at the initial conception of the web site.  Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is very often overlooked in favour of bolting it on as an afterthought when the site is completed.

The following tips will help beginners consider what to look out for when building a web site, give a little bit of understanding of what is needed and what fixes can be retro-fit to an existing web site to help you achieve better SEO results.

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How to upload a website using iWeb

After you have created your website with iWeb, you need to know how to upload a iWeb website to our servers. Read all »

Domain Name Search Widget

We thought it would be fun to design a Domain Search Widget to help frequently made domain searches by Mac OSX computers easier.

Download this Mac OSX dashboard Widget and install on your Mac, you can then make domain searches from your desktop.

The “i need a domain” Widget remembers up to 20 recent domain searches to refer back to.

Please download the “i need a domain” Widget (v1.0) here

Enjoy

Note: We’ve updated the widget to work with the new URL’s

What is Domain Mapping, why do I need it?

Domain Mapping is an extra add-on feature you can order for additional domains that point multiple domains to your primary hosting account.

But I hear you asking…

  • Why do I need domain mapping? 
  • Why bother, I can already re-direct domains using the tool in the domain control panel!

We shall answer these questions, pointing you to a few good reasons why and when you should use it. Read all »

Add a Flash Carousel in Freeway

As a response of how to create a Flash Carousel in a Freeway Web page, here’s a tutorial:

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Title: Flash Carousel
Description: Flash Carousel displaying on a Freeway Page

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